HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Unfaithful" & "My Answer"

It's amazing how many romance comic stories involve doctors, nurses, or both!

Case in point, this tale from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #10 (1951), which despite the book's title, has nothing to do with high school!

Illustrated by John Sink and illustrated by an unknown scripter, this is an entertaining, but moderately-improbable tale.

However, when it was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #68 (1957), the newly-created Comics Code Authority demanded numerous changes in the story...beginning with the very first caption and the title...

Interesting how much re-writing was done, eh?

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Usually it's two women fighting over the same man...

...but now, the tables are turned as a female MD must choose between a fellow doctor or a fever-ridden patient!

This tale from Harvey's First Romance #9 (1951) seems innocent, in fact, downright innocuous, eh?

The Comics Code Authority, founded in 1954, didn't think so!

When the story was reprinted in Harvey's First Love #79 (1957), they insisted on numerous changes...beginning with the title...which they apparently thought was too salacious!

Most of the other changes involve captions and dialogue, but also note a couple of art modifications!

Did the Comics Code go too far?

Were they over-reacting?

Enquiring minds want...nay...need to know~

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CoronaVirus Comics TRUE LOVE PROBLEMS AND ADVICE ILLUSTRATED "Was It Love or Pity?"

You've read this basic plot before...but there's several twists you haven't seen...

Oddly, our tale, though listed second in the table of contents, appeared in the back of the book!

Dr Mathews doesn't think much of his own daughter...

This never-reprinted tale from Harvey's True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #2 (1949) was illustrated by comics workhorse Bob Powell.

The scripter is unknown, but could have been Powell himself.

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What Do LOVE PROBLEMS & ADVICE ILLUSTRATED and PRIVATE LIVES AND LOVES OF GIRLS IN WHITE Have in Common?

In both cases, the cover art had nothing to so with the stories inside!

The art by Lee Elias for McCombs' Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #1 (1949) was a generic piece and none of the characters nor the situation shown appeared in any of the book's tales!

Note: Harvey Comics purchased McCombs' inventory when the company went out of business in 1950, and continued the Love Problems comic for 42 more issues until 1957.

And here's the weirdest thing...

...the cover art was re-used for Harvey's Private Lives and Loves of Girls in White, which appeared as part of Harvey's Comic Hits anthology (#58 in 1952), an issue about romances involving doctors and nurses!

BTW, it still didn't have anything to do with any of the stories in the book!

REX MORGAN, M.D. Exposes the TEEN-AGE DOPE SLAVES! Conclusion

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When Bruce Grayson is brought to the hospital to treat his overdose, his pusher, Manny, tries to force Dr Rex Morgan to inject the helpless dope addict with enough drugs to kill him.

Morgan manages to overpower Manny and his stooge...

This story, which appeared in Harvey Comics Library #1 (1952), was written by Nicholas Dallis, and illustrated by Marvin Bradley & Frank Edgington, the creators of the Rex Morgan MD newspaper strip.

(In fact, the story was originally published as part of the strip's continuity in newspapers all over the country before being reformatted into a comic book.)

Though meant as a cautionary tale, it was vilified by Dr Fredric Wertham in his book Seduction of the Innocent and lumped with horror and crime comics as one of the causes of juvenile delinquency!

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